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Stellar Clusters observed with XMM-Newton

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Minimum credit line: Image courtesy of R. Pallavicini, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy and ESA. (for details, see Conditions of Use).
Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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The figure shows examples of XMM-Newton observations of open clusters obtained as part of the GTO program (PI: R. Pallavicini). The six panels show composite EPIC (MOS+pn) images of young open clusters of different ages, covering the age interval from a few million years to about 600 million years (the age of the Hyades).

Investigator(s):  R. Pallavicini

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